Senior Brand Designer

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$156K/yr – $234K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 6 days ago

Job Summary

Own end-to-end brand design across product, marketing, and experiences, building scalable systems and prototyping with AI-assisted code to ship cohesive work.

  • Lead design across key brand moments and media to tell a consistent story
  • Prototype and refine with AI-assisted tools and front-end code to bring ideas to life

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead design across key brand moments — product launches, campaigns, events, internal initiatives, and moments not yet defined
  • Evolve the foundational elements of Vercel's visual identity: typography, color, composition, iconography, imagery, motion, and product-brand expression
  • Design across mediums, including web, motion, 3D, social, print, swag, and environments, choosing whatever format best serves the story
  • Move fluidly between Figma and code — writing HTML/CSS/JS and using AI-assisted tools (v0, Cursor, Claude Code) — to prototype independently and explore new forms of brand expression
  • Build and evolve a brand system that scales without going stale, translating it into tools, templates, and production-ready assets
  • Work hands-on from concept through final production, including preparing files, specs, and assets for implementation
  • Know when motion, 3D, code, or emerging technology meaningfully strengthens an idea — and when a simpler execution serves better
  • Establish a shared visual language across product, marketing, and internal comms — flexible enough to scale from everyday use to major brand moments
  • Partner with design engineers to polish prototypes into high-quality digital experiences
  • Collaborate with engineering, marketing, product design, and leadership to align on strategy and ship cohesive work

Requirements

  • 5+ years in brand, marketing, or visual design — ideally at a SaaS, developer tools, or fast-growing tech company
  • A portfolio showing exceptional taste, systems thinking, and execution across mediums — not just polished final images, but how you think, build systems, collaborate, navigate constraints, and get work into production
  • Exceptional typography and layout skills, with obsessive attention to spacing, hierarchy, rhythm, proportion, and alignment
  • Deep understanding of visual storytelling, brand systems, composition, motion, and digital experiences
  • You use AI throughout your process — visual exploration, prototyping, production, automation, and writing front-end code — not just to generate imagery or concepts, but to write, understand, debug, and iterate on code
  • Comfortable with tools like v0, Cursor, Claude Code, or similar AI-assisted coding environments to build working prototypes
  • Practical understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — enough to refine AI-generated code to a high visual and interaction standard
  • You don’t need to be a full-time engineer, but you’re technically curious, comfortable in code, and capable of shipping functional prototypes
  • You think beyond static files and enjoy bringing ideas to life as real, interactive experiences
  • Strong production knowledge across digital and physical formats — responsive design, asset delivery, print prep, environmental graphics, vendor production

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package, including equity.
  • Inclusive Healthcare Package.
  • Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills.
  • Flexible Time Off.
  • We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed.
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Vercel

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Vercel provides the developer tools and cloud infrastructure to build, scale, and secure a faster, more personalized web. Customers like Under Armour, Nintendo, The Washington Post, and Zapier use Vercel to build dynamic user experiences on the web.

Founded in 2015
San Francisco, California, USA
821 employees (52 in marketing)
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Salaries

Posted range

$156K/yr – $234K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$863M
Last Raise
$300M
Series F, 6 months ago

Funding History

  • Sep 2025
    Series F • $300M
  • May 2024
    Series E • $250M
  • Nov 2021
    Series D • $150M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
12.3M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
24.4%
Direct
64.9%
Referral
10%
Social
0.4%
Paid
0.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~822

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Senior Brand Designer

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